NOTE.--This will be a proper place to print the following note,
which I was obliged to write to a second cousin of Miss Dryasdust
after she had read the MS. of the article above:--

"DEAR MADAM:--I thank you for your kind suggestion, in returning
my paper, that it involves a piece of impossible history. You
inform me, that, according to the nomenclatured formulas and
homophonic analogies of Professor Gouraud, of
never-to-be-forgotten memory, "A NEEDLE is less useful for curing
a DEAF HEAD, than for putting ear-rings into a _Miss's
lily-ears_"; and that this shows that the second king of Judah,
named David (or Deaf-head) began to reign in 1055 B.C., and died
1040 B.C.'; and further, that, according to the same authority,
'_Homer flourished_ when the Greeks were fond of his POETRY';
which, being interpreted, signifies that he flourished in 914
B.C., and, consequently, could have had no more to do with David
than to plant ivy over his grave, in some of his voyages to
Phoenicia.

"I thank you for the suggestion. I knew the unforgetting
professor; and I do not doubt that he remembered David and Homer
as his near friends. But, of course, to such a memory, a century
or two might easily slip aside.

"Now, did you look up Clement? And did you not forget the
Arundelian Marbles? For, if you will take the long estimates, you
will find that some folks think Homer lived as long ago as the
year 1150, and some that it was as 'short ago' as 850. And some
set David as long ago as 1170, and some bring him down to a